Wohin?
Kunsthalle/Stadt/Gesellschaft der Zukunft
11.10.2025 – 1.2.2026

The final exhibition before the renovation sees Kunsthalle Düsseldorf turning its gaze towards the future: the future of the Kunsthalle itself, but also that of cities, urban spaces, societies and our shared ways of living together.

The exhibition Wohin? Kunsthalle / Stadt / Gesellschaft der Zukunft (Where to? Kunsthalle/City/Society of the Future) takes the institution’s current turning point as a starting position for a collective engagement with questions of urban and institutional coexistence. The Kunsthalle becomes a space for thinking and experience, a laboratory of possibilities. It invites visitors to explore issues of architecture, urban planning, cultural participation and the design of public and shared spaces in the city – particularly in times of profound ecological, social and economic change.

Artists, architects, designers, urban planners and researchers engaging with topics such as green cities, urban mobility, sustainable construction, lived democracy, cultural participation and the role and responsibility of culture within this complex framework, share their innovative ideas, projects and visions with visitors. Rather than a static presentation, the exhibition is conceived as an open, evolving project space. It brings together ideas, experiments and proposals, and invites visitors to think and develop them further together.

Wohin? explores perspectives for the city of the future and places key challenges of contemporary communal life at its centre. The focus is not solely on problems, but above all on creative solutions and forward-looking impulses from a wide range of actors.

We ask ourselves:
How do we want to live in the future?
And above all: How can we live in the future?

The aim of Wohin? is to create a space for encounters and exchange, in order to collectively seek answers to these questions. Visitors are invited to take an active part: with questions, thoughts, critique, and imagination for shaping our shared future. Numerous projects and formats encourage participation, co-creation, and engagement.

With Anouchka Strunden, Bureau Baubotanik, Club Real, Fari Shams & Every House has a door, Jan Kamensky, Luca Kohlmetz, Martin Pfeifle, Max Mundhenke & Jan Silbersiepe, MY-CO-X, Neonature, Offenbach Institut für Mobilitätsdesign, Paul Hutchinson, rampe:aktion, Stöbe Architekten & Molestina Architekten + Stadtplaner, Van Bo-Le Mentzel, Verbunt – Jugendkunst Düsseldorf e.V., Veronika Pfaffinger, Zentrum für Peripherie

Wohin? is a collaborative farewell project from the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf team and, at the same time, a shared departure into an open future.